Alright, let's dive into 100 chapter titles for learning Istio, progressing from beginner to advanced:
Beginner (Introduction & Core Concepts):
- Welcome to Istio: Service Mesh Fundamentals
- Understanding Microservices and Service Meshes
- Istio Architecture: Control Plane and Data Plane
- Setting Up Your Istio Environment (Minikube/Kind/Cloud)
- Installing Istio: Quick Start Guide
- Deploying Your First Application with Istio
- Understanding Sidecar Proxies (Envoy)
- Automatic Sidecar Injection: How It Works
- Basic Traffic Management: Routing and Load Balancing
- Service Discovery with Istio
- Exploring Istio's Observability Features
- Understanding Telemetry: Metrics, Logs, Traces
- Basic Istio Configuration: YAML Files
- Introduction to Istio's Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
- Understanding Namespaces and Istio Scope
- Basic Security with Istio: Mutual TLS (mTLS)
- Visualizing Your Service Mesh with Kiali
- Understanding Istio's Policy Enforcement
- Basic Fault Injection: Testing Resilience
- Istio CLI (istioctl) Basics
Intermediate (Traffic Management & Security):
- Advanced Traffic Routing: Virtual Services
- Destination Rules: Defining Service Subsets
- Traffic Shifting: Canary Deployments and Blue/Green
- Fault Injection: Delays and Aborts
- Retries and Timeouts: Improving Resilience
- Circuit Breaking: Protecting Services from Overload
- Gateway Configuration: Ingress and Egress
- External Service Access: Service Entries
- Advanced mTLS Configuration: Custom Certificates
- Authorization Policies: Controlling Access to Services
- Authentication Policies: Enforcing Identity
- Request Authentication: JWT Validation
- Policy Enforcement with WebAssembly (WASM)
- Rate Limiting with Istio
- Understanding Istio's Sidecar Resource Limits
- Integrating Istio with External Authentication Systems
- Advanced Observability: Custom Metrics and Dashboards
- Distributed Tracing with Jaeger/Zipkin
- Log Analysis with Elasticsearch/Kibana
- Istio Security Best Practices
- Managing Istio Configuration with GitOps
- Istio Upgrade Strategies: Canary Upgrades
- Troubleshooting Istio: Common Issues and Solutions
- Istio Traffic Management Patterns
- Istio Security Patterns
- Integrating Istio with CI/CD Pipelines
- Testing Istio Configurations
- Understanding Istio's Control Plane Components
- Istio's Data Plane Deep Dive: Envoy Configuration
- Istio's Extensibility: Adapters and Plugins
Advanced (Performance, Scalability, and Customization):
- Istio Performance Tuning: Sidecar Optimization
- Scaling Istio: Control Plane and Data Plane
- Multi-Cluster Istio Deployments
- Federated Istio: Connecting Multiple Meshes
- Istio and Service Mesh Interface (SMI)
- Customizing Istio's Control Plane Components
- Building Custom Istio Adapters
- Developing Envoy Filters for Istio
- Advanced WebAssembly (WASM) Integration
- Istio and Edge Computing
- Istio and Serverless Functions
- Istio and Machine Learning Workloads
- Istio and IoT Devices
- Istio and Data Mesh Architectures
- Advanced Istio Security: Zero Trust Networks
- Istio and Compliance: PCI DSS, HIPAA
- Istio and Service Mesh as a Platform (SMaP)
- Istio and Policy as Code (OPA, Kyverno)
- Istio and Multi-Tenancy
- Istio and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Istio and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Istio and Advanced Traffic Mirroring
- Istio and Advanced Load Balancing Algorithms
- Istio and Advanced Gateway Configuration
- Istio and Advanced Monitoring and Alerting
- Istio and Advanced Distributed Tracing Techniques
- Istio and Advanced Log Analysis and Correlation
- Istio and Advanced Security Auditing
- Istio and Advanced Testing Strategies
- Istio and Advanced Deployment Patterns
- Istio and Advanced Configuration Management
- Istio and Advanced Resource Management
- Istio and Advanced Performance Optimization
- Istio and Advanced Scalability Strategies
- Istio and Advanced Extensibility Patterns
- Istio and Advanced Development Workflows
- Istio and Advanced Troubleshooting Techniques
- Istio and Advanced Security Hardening
- Istio and Advanced Policy Enforcement
- Istio and Advanced Data Plane Configuration
- Istio and Advanced Control Plane Operations
- Istio and Advanced Multi-Cluster Management
- Istio and Advanced Service Mesh Governance
- Istio and Advanced Service Mesh Automation
- Istio and Advanced Service Mesh Observability
- Istio and Advanced Service Mesh Security
- Istio and Advanced Service Mesh Patterns
- Contributing to the Istio Open Source Project
- Istio in Production: Real-World Use Cases
- The Future of Istio and Service Meshes